Posted on 02/26/2025 6:25:41 AM PST by Cronos
For decades, social scientists, demographers and Christians themselves have told a familiar story about the state of Christianity in the United States: The country was rapidly secularizing. The Christian population was shrinking, on its way to becoming a minority religion. America may have been some years behind Europe in the process, but its pews were emptying steadily and inexorably.
Now, that narrative may be changing.
After years of decline, the Christian population in the United States has been stable for several years, a shift fueled in part by young adults, according to a major new survey from the Pew Research Center. And the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans, which had grown steadily for years, has also leveled off.
“We’re entering a new era of the American religious landscape,". The “nones” — those in the American population who tell researchers they have no religious affiliation — have been growing for decades. Now that growth has either slowed or stopped completely,.
..The survey finds that 62%f adults in the United States describe themselves as Christians, including 40% who identify as Protestant and 19% Catholic.
Overall, that represents a decline in the share of Christians since the survey was first published in 2007. As recently as the early 1990s, 90% adults in the country identified as Christian.
...The youngest survey participants stood out in other ways, too. The gap in religiosity between men and women is far smaller than it is in older generations. Typically, women are more religious than men on a variety of measures. It’s a pattern so consistent across time, geography and culture that some scholars characterize it as a fact of human life. The pattern shows up in Pew’s oldest cohorts, where, for example, women are 20 points more likely than men to say they pray every day.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
A hopeful sign that a new generation of American men may be reclaiming their status as the leaders of the community instead of the scapegoats.
It is simple Evolution. Christian couples tend to stay married which helps make their children successful. Those also have more kids then the other alternatives. So the numbers of Christians eventually bounce back.
Partial fake news.
There isn’t a direct correlation between religion and conservative thought.
Seeing a decline in the rock-n-roll, mega, arena churches would be a good start to get people back.
I heard that a lot of young men, and women, are turning to Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism.
I also see a growing, but admittedly still small, number of young black men not only coming to church, but committing to living it like they mean it. This includes waiting until they're married to have kids. They come to the financial small group single, then come back through it years later married so that their wives also know financial wisdom, and say they're wanting to know it BEFORE they have kids.
Most of the blacks who do that tell us group leaders that they came from single-parent homes and want to do things God's way so that their kids don't experience what they did.
The word “conservative” does not show up, even once, in the excerpt. This post seems to be entirely about Christianity.
Thank you. I had to step in and repeat this.
What a srock of chit this is. Any “increase” in Catholics in America is thanks to the illegal alien invasion. These invaders are 100% Catholic Marxists who attend Mass regularly (the womenfolk anyway) but who neither believe in, nor practice, birth control. Who would take a drug to prevent the creation of an automatic American citizen? Especially when the expense and procedures attendant thereto are entirely covered by taxpayers’ dollars? I mean, come on, man! The illegal aliens who broke another law to register and vote in the last presidential election voted for Trump because they are anti-abortion. Duhhhhh! So what’s he gonna do for them, now that they are part of his constituency? Deport them? I don’t think so. Reality can play strange games with your head.
Here’s hoping.
Very.
Is this author Ruth Graham of the Billy Graham lineage?
This young generation might be the first one in 2 millennia which is more religious than their grandparents.
People need to be careful about praying for “revival”. And student of history knows what usually precedes it.😉
But then, there is that old phrase, “no pain, no gain”. Humans tend to learn not from their successes, but from their (or others) mistakes.
Liberals love to put people into demographic boxes.
Individualism is a concept they can not wrap their heads around.
It was shocking to me to learn how long these have been around, well before my lifetime and centered in the Pentecostal culture. Oral Roberts was one of these early pioneers of the arena church, and before him, Aimee Semple McPherson with her showy Angelus Temple routines in the 1920's. Besides being an unqualified woman, she was also an adulteress.
I don't think these are going to go away as long as there are tens of thousands of duped attendees willing to provide a market for them.
That is so blatantly untrue. One can be conservative and not be "religious." Though I wish that were the case, these days we're seeing so called conservatives have no Christian morals or values whatsoever. And that will be the downfall of conservatism unless that trend is reversed.
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